Dekayella

Dekayella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterotrypidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 456.8 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 425 Mya.

Ordovician — about 46 of 47 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 47 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 5 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 5 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 6 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 7 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 7 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 8 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456.8 Mya426.7 Mya458.9 Mya424.3 Mya

47 occurrences of Dekayella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

47 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

13 formations

Verulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.53°N, 78.98°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBigby-Cannon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WCatheys — 35.50°N, 86.50°WRidley Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WInman — 35.50°N, 86.50°WUpper Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WVasalemma — 59.28°N, 24.65°EDecorah Shale — 44.98°N, 93.26°W

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The named rock units Dekayella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dekayella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dekayella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

531 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Dekayella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

8 references

Each of the 47 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dekayella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHeterotrypidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1882